With
over a sixth of the entire world's population, India has a lot of
people. And among these people, 30% is under the age of 15. The
median age is 25.1 years, making India one of the demographically
youngest countries in the world. We have a competitive advantage over
more "developed" countries that are slowly aging their way
out towards retirement.

And
as you might expect, what holds back the immense promise of India's
young population is Education, or rather the lack of it.

A
young population is useless unless skilled and educated. And our
education system is failing miserably to rise to the challenge.

An
education is what differentiates a productive member of society from
one who is simply a drain on the nation's resources. Education is
essential to the all round socio-cultural development of people into
bona fide citizens who can join the workforce and contribute to the
growth of the nation.

Belying
the unfathomable importance of the education system on the future
growth and prosperity of any nation is the lack of attention that is
paid to keeping our education system up to modern standards and
capable of producing citizens who are able to deal with the unique
challenges posed by the reality of work and employment in the 21st
century.

The
predicament

Globally,
the modern education system came into being as a consequence of the
Industrial Revolution is late 18th century Europe. The advent of the
steam engine and the slow transition from manual production to
machines posed a very particular challenge to the workforce: it
created a demand for people skilled in the sciences and technology;
people with very narrow sets of specialised skills that will allow
them to work in a rapidly mechanising and industrialising economy.

Fast
forward a few centuries and the global landscape has changed
remarkably. AI is threatening to take over almost all human
involvement in traditional jobs. At the same time, a variety of new
avenues of employment have opened up due to the rise of the Internet
that were nigh on unimaginable even a few decades prior; who would
have imagined that people would be able to get rich off of making
makeup tutorials and sketch comedy from the comfort of their homes?

The
situation on the homefront

Our
education systems, and in India particularly, have not kept pace with
these developments. The National Policy on Education that governs
everything from primary education to higher learning in India was
formulated in 1968 and revised in 1986, post which it has remained
stagnant. Any student who has graduated from school or college in the
past 20 years can easily attest to the failures of the Indian
education system to adequately prepare them for life in the fast
paced 21st century.

Let's
start at the obvious: engineering and technical fields. India is a
country globally famous for our technical expertise and IT dominance.
Internally however, the quality of “engineers” (to use the term
very loosely) we produce each year in abundance is abysmal. A large
part of the new graduates are unemployable by most measures and by
joining legacy IT firms in droves they much down the salaries for
everyone else. This is probably the reason why even though Indians
are at the forefront of many impressive technical feats and global IT
powerhouses around the globe, India itself lags behind, ranking lowly
in its ability to innovate or compete with developed nations in terms
of engineering or computer science.

The
field of Medicine is no better; it is no surprise that India is
facing an acute shortage of doctors and medical professionals. What
complicates the fact more is the rise of incompetent professionals
with medical degrees who end up harming countless innocent lives. The
view is equally dire in the field of Law, Journalism, and the Arts.

The
way forward

If
India is to leverage its young population and countless other
advantages into emerging as a 21st century superpower, we have to
start at the basics: Education Reform.

The
entire fabric of K-12 education needs an overhaul. To begin with,
parents need to realise (and are realising, perhaps, as we speak)
that there are plenty of viable career opportunities outside the
realm of engineering. There needs to a fundamental acceptance of this
fact, which will perhaps finally result in the reduction of
popularity of cram schools designed to create not well-rounded
students but automatons configured to solve competitive exams and
nothing further.

Education
needs to shake off the influence of its roots in the 18th century and
undergo a transformation that befits its importance in the 21st. For
instance, focusing more on the all round development of students so
that they may discover their true passion, whatever it may be,
instead of encouraging rote learning of the same science subjects
with next to no importance to arts, music, or dance. Improving the
amount of physical education is also essential in our increasingly
sedentary lifestyle.

Scientific
skill development for students who have a knack for it is essential.
A curriculum which relies on practical hands-on skills that are
actually relevant in today's day and age will certainly go a long way
in ensuring that the students of today can deftly navigate the
challenges of tomorrow. Introducing computer programming at a young
age is essential; as is a strong focus on learning languages and
developing native level fluency (it has been long known that learning
languages is one of the most effective ways of exercising the brain
and improving mental acuity).

Finally,
learning must not be restricted to the confines of a classroom.
Students should be ranked on their activities outside the classroom
as they flex their intellectual muscles in every aspect of their
lives. Encouraging them to fully immerse themselves in their activity
of choice in order to develop mastery in it is the best thing we as a
society can do today for the citizens of tomorrow.

Choosing
to see a brighter future

The
challenges facing a vast and developing nation like ours are not
insignificant. However, a capable education system will go a long way
in ensuring that India is prepared to lead the way forward instead of
being a mute follower. By making education our priority, we will,
inevitably, make a better India our priority.​

Data
runs the modern world. Targeted advertising has made relatively new
companies like Google and Facebook corporate behemoths. Online
retailers like Amazon and Target can predict your next purchase
before the though even forms in your mind. Data is everywhere and
deeply affects our lives in the 21st century.

Another
thing that also deeply affects our (and everyone else's) lives in the
21st century is Education. It has, however, remained somewhat aloof
of the frenetic disruption that data-driven technologies have caused
elsewhere. Education certainly isn't lacking in data; in fact it is
one of the most data-intense domains where performance is tracked and
evaluated as an end in itself. However, precious little has been done
to leverage this veritable gold mine in order to improve the quality
of education students receive.
The
Start of Analysis

Schools
are slowly adopting the latest and greatest in technology. Once a
domain only for the ultra-exclusive schools for the rich or the
so-called “alternative education” practitioners, opportunities
for producing data-driven solutions are increasing day by day. Modern
technology allows for tracking fine metrics and accurate data
analysis.

Analytics in education can work for the
betterment of both teachers and students. Learning from the pitfalls
of No Child Left Behind program in the US (viz. connecting teachers'
pay to student performance, among others), we can use the data rich
environment afforded by schools to improve both how teachers teach
and how students learn.

Window
shopping

Because of
the sheer scope of data that is tracked by schools, analysis can lead
to insights in not only education but also how that affects and is in
turn affected by socio-economic factors. Tracked variables include,
but are certainly not limited to, location, health records, parental
income, parental status, past learning experiences, educational
variables like grades and scores, attendance and truancy records,
etc. It is paramount that this sensitive data be properly anonymised
and randomised in order to prevent biases and data-hacking to
influence results favourable to vested interests.

Once
the proper precautions are taken, though, even very simple analytical
tools can be used to derived valuable insight, from drawing attention
to laggard students to drawing connections between academic
performance and behavioural patterns such as truancy or late
submissions of assignments.

A
new stratagem

In
order to leverage this analytical muscle, education must move to new
age media that supports tracking. This means an increased focus on
online learning, education software, and social network integration.
The conventional methods of paper books must be abandoned at the
institutional level. This will not only reduce overhead in converting
data-on-paper into digital but also allow tracking behavioural
patterns that otherwise could never have been discerned and
analysed.

The way Google tracks login behaviours to detect
and predict fraudulent activity, educational analytics can track the
time spent on a particular chapter or paragraph to model not only
each individual student but also the student body as a whole
vis-a-vis learning ability and instruction assimilation. Tracking how
students interact with each other on social media and other platforms
of discourse can also be effective in evaluating the value of each
individual's contribution and further diversify the data pool from
which we can draw insight.

This situation has also spurred
further research and development into Learning Management Systems
(LMS) that are environments tailor made to facilitate and prioritise
learning in every interaction while minimising the possibilities of
entertainment or distraction that conventional social networks
facilitate at every level.

From personalising courses to
individual ability to providing new means of evaluating progress that
are not just standardised testing, analytics really hold the key to
unlocking the next paradigm shift in education.

There are
however, concerns. Privacy is paramount among them, as the invasive
data collection can be used to affect discrimination in the wrong
hands. Also concerning is the question of ownership of the data
generated by these mechanisms; does it belong to the students or the
institution? What if a student wishes to exercise the equivalent of
The Right to be Forgotten in this context? Who can access the results
of the analysis? Should students be able to check their own profiles?
There are no easy answers here and significant teething problems are
to be expected.

Treading
carefully

For all
the importance we assign to education, we still have no clear idea
about the underlying mechanisms of education. Even after all these
years, we do not know which standard educational practices affect
favourable outcomes in students, if any. We do not know which
practices need to be curtailed. It is mostly flying blind and the
Silicon Valley approach of Move Fast and Break Things is as
appropriate in this environment as an ice cream cake near a crackling
fireplace.

Analytics also has its limits. The variables we
track are structurally defined by the medium we observe. As such,
there is no way to analyse the impact of an encouraging teacher or a
supportive circle of friends and co-learners. We must tread carefully
and not lose sight of the goal that is to improve education in
learners, not just as statistics.

We know that we need to
reform our education system but we cannot predict its effects with
any degree of certainty. Analytics can certainly ameliorate this
impasse by providing dependable insight on how to best treat the pain
points in modern education systems. The blinds must be lifted before
we can chart a course to the destination. And only then will we be
able to enjoy the view from the windows.

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Since a few decades, we have problem a since many students and developers not getting jobs despite of having a B.Tech and MCA degrees. A large sum of these people are not bad as "students" during their academic year(s) but due to a huge shift in the perspective of employers these days, and the inaptness of student's understanding of the market's needs has given rise to a major part of "unemployed" youth.

We at TheoreX, believe that these people have a dream and can do things like all those working in MNCs. They have what it takes to be as confident about every move that they take in the industry. TheoreX is be an enabler to herald a generation of developers, data scientists and an awesome person. Theorex is a platform where we teach you, exactly what the market requires from you; makes you job-ready at a very economical charges.

TheoreX, just took its first step as we did a seminar at MAKAUT(Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology) during Konstruct Fest 2k16 to mark its first step towards its mission.

The Moments of the day

What if you want to sum up your love for something which you love the most?"You get your hands dirty and build it from scratch."

Ayan Choudhury, Founder & CEO TheoreX starts his talk about how he began his career and the problem he faced as an engineer in his life. The amount of dedication which he feels can change the life of all the students and learners. He concludes by saying, this is just the starting and more is about to come.

Why will you choose TheoreX over all?"Because we understand what market wants out of you and we build it with love"

Debapriya Bhattacharya, COO of TheroeX talks about opportunities that we have for you at TheoreX and how TheoreX will make your learning more easy. He also talked more about how you can get started with TheoreX. He concluded by emphasizing on students to get involved and unleash the "born-to-learn" spirit in them.

Sumantro Mukherjee, the Former CTO of TheoreX talks about how fast the industry is adapting ML and cloud. Best practices and use cases of ML. How each one experiences and uses ML in their day to day life. He showed a demo on ML on Microsoft Azure. He concludes by saying each one should join and start learning as a team and increase their skillset by manifolds.

Built with technology..for you; anytime!

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Hey you awesome reader,
You are awesome because you made time to read my puny blog! :-D
Whatever, hope you are doing good! You are here because maybe I think you have some interests in TheoreX. Well, I don’t think, I know you do! and you must be, because something really creative and unique is coming soon in the vast and most powerful E-learning Industry. Yes, TheoreX is based on E-learning, but wait Dear! there’s lot more than you are thinking of right now. Eager to know what is that! Hold on, we have enough time to discuss about this. First Let me know you why I started this, why I love TheoreX as my family member, as my Son! :-)

I am just a normal Software Engineer graduate, a damn bored & frustrated pass out of the batch 2015 from Techno INDIA-salt lake, . More importantly, Every Engineer’s dream is to get a Job from Campussing and making his/her parents Proud! But, I was not that kind of guy, never I want to be one! I want to make my Parents happy being a Successful Human Being. Now some of you will say, getting a Job after your graduation, isn’t that Success? Well, I don’t know what you believe, rather I don’t want to but I believe that this is not ‘Success’. What I believe is, you are successful when you don’t have to introduce yourself. You are successful when your follower circle will be much bigger than your friend circle. I believe you are successful when you will be scoring 10 out of 5 daily. You are successful when you have your own Empire, rather working for others!

I heard people say that Entrepreneurship is breeding in every home nowadays, yes I do know it’s growing and I support them to the fullest, because those people cum Entrepreneurs know if you don’t take risks in every single step of the life, there is zero chance of winning. They know, their fights starts from the very first day they decided to be an Entrepreneur. They never know that are they going to be successful or failure. The only thing they know is to take risk, is to give their 500% to make any shit happens. And that’s how they become successful, that’s how they make an impact in the industry, in the society. Moreover, they listen to their heart, not mind.

Yes, I am proud to be one of them. I am proud to become an Entrepreneur because the circumstances made me do so. I am proud to enjoy this shitty life for the rest of my life, because I ‘love’ what I do! And that is why I didn’t get a Job from College. I even didn’t try to get one. So, what I did to gain industry level experiences? I joined famous open source communities, I worked with them without getting a single penny, because again I loved what I was doing, I loved the exposure I was getting and I still do. But you know, there will be a hell lot of people who will be back bitching you, who will use you and who will hate you because, either they are not capable of what you are doing or they have fear taking risks. Yes, I love to get hated because those who hate me are my true fans. :-D

During those college days, I realised one thing clearly that students in India (Specially West Bengal) don’t get that much of exposure in the industry before they are joining in one. They have least idea how industry is working nowadays. They don’t even know, what technology they should focus on to become successful in future. All they know is what College teaches, that’s all. No Sire, No Ma’am. That’s not. There is a hell lot of other things you need to know apart from ‘C’, apart from ‘Java’. That is why TheoreX is here! I made TheoreX for giving a perfect shape to this Educational Industry. I don’t want to see pupil facing Unemployment problems at the end of their Graduations! I don’t want to see people leaving jobs because they don’t like it or they are not capable of that! I want them to grow their expertise, experience while they are students or some corporate. I want to give them a perfect Industry Level Exposure before joining any industry or maybe while working in any industry. I want them to ‘showoff’ their skills as much as they can. I want to make them so much professional that organisations propose to hire them through our portal, they offer our users more than others! That is why TheoreX is coming for you bringing a hell new concept to E-Learning and ‘more’. We are booming this very sooner. Wait till the next blog to know about TheoreX.

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